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«Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole»
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
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«Men can do all things if they will»
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Willpower
«When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.»
«Painting is possessed of a divine power, for not only . . . does it make the absent present, but it also, after many centuries, makes the dead almost alive, so that they are recognized with great admiration . . .»
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
«We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.»
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
«A man can do all things if he but wills them.»
Author: Leon Battista Alberti
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